AW: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments

[Arie Vayner]

Hi

What is the avarage BW per subscriber you are seeing?
We have an NPE-G1 running arond 3K broadband sessions (~40-50Kbps per user 
on avarge) with per-user-CAR (both ways)
The CPU is at around 40% 

Arie

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mark Walliser wrote:

> hello
> 
> i wonder if any1 has a 7206VXR/NPE-G1 serving more than 10k sessions in
> PRODUCTION (not the test- and/or lab-figures)
> if yes, i'd be very intrested in what IOS you're using - and what
> configuration/features.
> 
> btw: we were using 7206VXR/NPE-400 - no special features enabled, just doing
> plain "PPP-in-L2TP-termination" and did not manage terminating more than 4k
> sessions (cisco claims 8k)...
> 
> that's the reason, why we're interested in "real-life-figures" of the NPE-1
> (we've reached 6k - causing around 30% cpuload - no problems so far - but as
> history shows, cpuload is not rising linear compared to the number of
> sessions, we really doubt being able to do 16k sessions...)
> 
> tnx & greetz,
> mark
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Andy Schutz (aschutz) [mailto:aschutz at cisco.com] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 00:09
> An: 'Charles Sprickman'; cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> Betreff: RE: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments
> 
> 
> Charles,
> 
> I'm a bit partial considering I work for Cisco but the 7206 with NPE-G1
> should at the very minimum be at par with the capabilities of a SMS 1800 (is
> that what you are looking at?) if not surpass it.  The 7206 can do the
> following which the low-end Redbacks can't:
> 
> RA-MPLS
> IP QoS
> Per-user firewall
> 16k active sessions
> Service Selection
> ATM based Dynamic Bandwidth Selection
> ...
> 
> I'm sure I missed some more stuff.  You mentioned that the RB looks more
> interesting, what specifically are you referring to?  I have to admit,
> sometimes Cisco marketing/product capability definitions aren't as good as
> they should be so I can easily see how one might miss a lot of the features
> Cisco has.
> 
> Hope that helps a bit.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-bba-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:cisco-bba-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> > Charles Sprickman
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:47 PM
> > To: cisco-bba at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [cisco-bba] RedBack comments
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I don't want to stir anything up, but is anyone here using Cisco and 
> > RedBack side-by-side and willing to compare?
> > 
> > I'm currently looking at either getting another 7206 or a
> > low-end RedBack.
> > On paper the RB looks more interesting.  It seems Cisco 
> > dropped the 6400.
> > If this seems too OT, please reply privately and I'll summarize.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > --
> > Charles Sprickman
> > spork at inch.com
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